Our little baby is 3 years old! He is still cuddly and needs lots of love. But he is also revealing a stubborn streak, and these days it seems he gets angry at small things.
Learning/Development
His counting is consistent. He likes to practice drawing letters (mostly just the letter O), but sometimes T.
He often mixes up 2 and 5 when he sees them.
Language
He still parrots Lumi, which means he gets lots of English practice at home with her. He wants to speak Finnish, and Kimmo is making a conscious effort to speak more slowly with him so he can get it even with the limited exposure.
He likes the color green but can't say it right. It comes out like "bean". That said, he gets frustrated if we say "bean" and we mean green, so he can definitely hear the difference.
Toys/Games/Other
Favorite toys: cars, little figures, legos, geomag
He loves Legos. He is showing signs of creativity with them, and will build his own designs (mostly airplanes).
Social
He has friends at barnehage! He is starting to be more social in his play, and he plays consistently with the same friend most days. She is apparently a handful and lots of fun. He mentions her when he's getting ready for barnehage, like "Should I show her this shirt?" And even toward the end of this month, there is a little crew of buddies that run around together.
He loves to give a " smooch " to Lumi, äiti, or isä. He often does not give a warning, and instead comes at you like he's about to bite you. Then if you pull away he sadly says," I was going to do a smooch!" But also before he leaves for the day, in addition to a hug, demands "äiti! smooch!"
He really resists muskari (finnish music class) for some reason.
Eating
He is still good at eating protein and vegetables. He doesn't like sandwiches, which makes his "tour day" lunches trickier for us. We make muffins and include one, which seems to help.
4.10 he wouldn't even try fish cakes
15.10 getting a bit more flexible about having raisins or chocolate chips in a cookie or bun. He really enjoyed the raisins in his pulla on the way to muskari.
We started a tradition of going to McDonald's after muskari. He likes the french fries and the milk to drink. He doesn't like the breading on the nuggets.
He likes fish sticks but he often peels the breading off.
Sleeping
He has been resisting naps for quite some time, so we decided to go ahead and say "no naps" at barnehage, unless he requested it (previously we had asked that they really try to get him to sleep). Then on 24.9 he slept right through muskari and missed the whole thing.
2.10 he slept until almost 8. It was incredible.
He mostly goes to bed without too much effort, and then comes to sleep next to Äiti at some point during the night.
Health
mid -month he was recovering from a cold, and was coughing a little and was a little snotty. He doesn't usually like to blow his nose, but sometimes he cooperates.
Stats
Clothes: size 98/104. Shoes: size 26.
Teeth: 20
Weight: 15.8 kg on 31.7
Height: 96 cm on 9.9
Events
21.9 soiva Sammakko teatteri
25.9 Eplets Dag
2.10 Nelli over to play
4-7.10 isä gone
9.10 toni & helmine & amalie over to play; suomi kerho
10-12.10 isä gone
14.10 helmine spent the night
15.10 muskari
20.20 birthday!
Random
24.9 Isä was [unwittingly] sitting on otso's paper airplane. otso kept asking about his plane, and kimmo couldn't see it, and they discussed it for a while, while otso got increasingly frustrated (because he knew it was under kimmo). finally kimmo said "mitä sitten tehdään?" (translation: what should we do?) and otso replied "i want you to get off your peppu and look under there!" :)
october 8-9 was a rough weekend, for reasons unknown. he had several tantrums in response to very small triggers. ugh -- same with the next weekend.
He can get very frustrated with his sister when she involves him in games and he doesn't want to be involved. She put an imaginary medal around his neck when he won a race and he got furious. If she walks by and touches him on the head or shoulder, he will scream "DON'T DO THAT LUMI!" and then try to hit her.
He doesn't understand or like pet names. If you say "hi, cutie" he will respond "i'm not a cutie, I'm Otso."
20.10 after a bite of birthday cake, he happily said "it tastes like pizza!"
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